Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and the aims of the book -- 1.2 The ESIA process -- 1.3 The broader context for ESIA -- 1.4 Book structure -- 2 Water -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definitions and concepts -- 2.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 2.4 Scoping -- 2.5 Baseline -- 2.6 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 2.7 Mitigation -- 2.8 Monitoring -- 2.9 Conclusions -- 3 Soils, land and geology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Definitions and concepts -- 3.3 Key policy and legislation -- 3.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 3.5 Impact prediction -- 3.6 Mitigation -- 3.7 Monitoring -- 3.8 Conclusions -- 4 Air -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Definitions and concepts -- 4.3 Key international guidelines and standards -- 4.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 4.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 4.6 Mitigation and enhancement -- 4.7 Monitoring -- 4.8 Conclusions -- 5 Climate and climate change -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Definitions and concepts -- 5.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 5.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 5.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 5.6 Mitigation and monitoring -- 5.7 Conclusions -- 6 Ecology -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Definitions and concepts -- 6.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 6.4 Defining the baseline - scoping -- 6.5 Defining the baseline - desk studies and surveys -- 6.6 Detailed surveys and evaluation of baseline conditions -- 6.7 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 6.8 Mitigation -- 6.9 Monitoring -- 6.10 Conclusions -- 7 Coastal ecology and geomorphology -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Definitions and concepts -- 7.3 Key legislation, policies and guidance -- 7.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 7.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 7.6 Mitigation. , 7.7 Monitoring -- 7.8 Conclusions -- 8 Ecosystem services -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Definitions and concepts -- 8.3 Key policy, legislation, guidance and standards -- 8.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 8.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 8.6 Mitigation and enhancement -- 8.7 Monitoring -- 8.8 Conclusions -- 9 Noise -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Definitions and concepts -- 9.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 9.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 9.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 9.6 Mitigation -- 9.7 Monitoring -- 9.8 Conclusions -- 10 Transport -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Definitions and concepts -- 10.3 Key guidance -- 10.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 10.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 10.6 Mitigation -- 10.7 Monitoring -- 10.8 Conclusions -- 11 Landscape and visual -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Definitions and concepts -- 11.3 Key legislation and guidance -- 11.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 11.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 11.6 Mitigation and enhancement -- 11.7 Monitoring -- 11.8 Conclusions -- 12 Cultural heritage -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Definitions and concepts -- 12.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 12.4 Baseline studies -- 12.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 12.6 Interactions -- 12.7 Mitigation and enhancement -- 12.8 Monitoring -- 12.9 Conclusions -- 13 Socio-economic impacts 1: Overview and economic impacts -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Definitions and concepts -- 13.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 13.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 13.5 Impact prediction and evaluation: direct and indirect employment impacts -- 13.6 Mitigation and enhancement -- 13.7 Monitoring -- 13.8 Conclusions -- 14 Socio-economic impacts 2: Social impacts -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Definitions and concepts -- 14.3 Key legislation, guidance and concepts -- 14.4 Scoping and baseline studies. , 14.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 14.6 Mitigation and enhancement -- 14.7 Monitoring -- 14.8 Conclusions -- 15 Land acquisition, resettlement and livelihoods -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Definitions, concepts, key guidance/standards -- 15.3 Outline of the resettlement process -- 15.4 Scoping and initial planning -- 15.5 Profiling and baseline data collection -- 15.6 Development of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) -- 15.7 Implementation and handover -- 15.8 Livelihood restoration and enhancement -- 15.9 Monitoring and evaluation -- 15.10 Conclusions -- 16 Health -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Definitions and concepts -- 16.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 16.4 Screening and scoping for HIA -- 16.5 Assessment for HIA -- 16.6 Mitigation/enhancement and monitoring for HIA -- 16.7 Human Health Risk Assessment -- 16.8 What capabilities are needed to undertake HIA? -- 16.9 Conclusions -- 17 Resource efficiency -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Definitions and concepts -- 17.3 Key legislation, guidance and standards -- 17.4 Scoping and baseline studies -- 17.5 Impact prediction and evaluation -- 17.6 Mitigation -- 17.7 Conclusions -- 18 Risk and risk assessment -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Definitions and concepts -- 18.3 Prediction and evaluation -- 18.4 Mitigation -- 18.5 Beyond QRA and qualitative risk assessment? -- 18.6 QRA and ESIA -- 18.7 Conclusions -- 19 Cumulative effects -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Definitions and concepts -- 19.3 Key legislation and guidance -- 19.4 Scoping and baseline -- 19.5 Prediction and evaluation -- 19.6 Mitigation -- 19.7 Monitoring and management -- 19.8 Conclusions -- 20 Environmental and social management plans -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Definitions and concepts -- 20.3 Key legislation, policy and guidance -- 20.4 Developing an ESMP -- 20.5 Conclusions -- Glossary -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Henry Enfield Roscoe -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Who Was Henry Enfield Roscoe? -- 2. Of Lancastrian Stock and the Formative Years -- 3. Finding His Niche -- 4. Seeing the Light -- 5. From Instability to Stability -- 6. Creating a Civic University -- 7. Flying the Flag for Chemistry in Cottonopolis -- 8. Roscoe's Engagement with Industry -- 9. Securing Britain's Economic Future -- 10. A Chemist in the House -- 11. An Active Retirement -- 12. Roscoe's Legacy -- A Complete Bibliography of Henry Enfield Roscoe's Publications -- Bibliography of Works Consulted -- Index.

Note: Chemistry at Oxford -- Contents -- Chapter 1 An Outline of the History of Oxford University with Reference to its Chemistry School -- 1.1 An Introduction to the University -- 1.2 The Beginnings of Chemistry within the University -- 1.3 The Creation of Chemistry Departments -- 1.4 The Teaching of Chemistry -- 1.5 A Summary of Chemistry's Development -- References -- Chapter 2 From Alchemy to Airpumps: The Foundations of Oxford Chemistry to 1700 -- 2.1 Late Medieval English Alchemy -- 2.2 The Hon. Robert Boyle and his Chemical World -- 2.3 Where were the Laboratories? -- 2.4 Oxford's 'Invisible' Chemists: The City Apothecaries and their Laboratories -- 2.5 The Oxford Airpump Discoveries -- 2.6 John Mayow -- 2.7 Thomas Willis -- 2.8 The Revd John Ward: Amateur Chemist and Physician -- 2.9 The Ashmolean Laboratory, 1683 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Chapter 3 The Eighteenth Century: Chemistry Allied to Anatomy -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century -- 3.3 Oxford in the Eighteenth Century -- 3.4 The Teaching of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Oxford -- 3.5 The Revival of Chemistry after 1775 -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References and Notes -- Chapter 4 Chemistry Comes of Age: The 19th Century -- 4.1 The Aldrichian Chair -- 4.2 Charles Daubeny and Reform -- 4.3 The Museum -- 4.4 Benjamin Brodie -- 4.5 William Odling and his Demonstrators -- 4.6 The College Laboratories and the Growth of Physical Chemistry -- References -- Chapter 5 Research as the Thing: Oxford Chemistry 1912-1939 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Impact of Perkin -- 5.3 The Contributions of the Colleges -- 5.4 The Mancunian Inheritance -- 5.5 The Dr Lee's Chair and Old Chemistry -- 5.6 The Chemical Synthesiser -- 5.7 X-Ray Crystallography -- 5.8 Careers: The Lure of Industry -- 5.9 Conclusion -- Notes and References. , Chapter 6 Interlude: Chemists at War -- References -- Chapter 7 Recent Times, 1945-2005: A School of World Renown -- 7.1 General Introduction to the Period: The Three Centres of Influence -- 7.1.1 The Three Periods 1945 to 1965, 1965 to 1980, 1980 to Today -- 7.1.2 Summary -- 7.2 Recruitment and the Nature of Professorships and Fellowship/Lectureships -- 7.2.1 A Note on Women Fellows in Chemistry -- 7.3 The Undergraduate Entry into Oxford and the Chemistry Course -- 7.3.1 The Butler Education Act 1944 -- 7.3.2 The Structure of the Chemistry Course -- 7.3.3 The Content of the Undergraduate Course -- 7.3.4 The Graduate School -- 7.4 The Three Professors and the Three Departments of 1945 -- 7.4.1 Hinshelwood and Physical Chemistry -- 7.4.2 Robinson and Organic Chemistry -- 7.4.3 The Third Professor: Sidgwick -- 7.4.4 The Acting Heads and Nature of the Third Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry (1945-1963) -- 7.5 Research 1945 to 1965 -- 7.5.1 Theory and Mathematical Research -- 7.5.2 Summary -- 7.6 Research 1965 to 1980 -- 7.6.1 The Revival of Inorganic Chemistry -- 7.6.2 Organo-Metallic Chemistry -- 7.6.3 Traditional Organic Chemistry -- 7.6.4 Physical Chemistry -- 7.6.5 Chemical Crystallography and Biophysics -- 7.6.6 Theoretical Chemistry and its Short-Lived Department -- 7.6.7 The Enzyme Group -- 7.6.8 Life in Oxford, 1945-1980 -- 7.7 Research: 1980 to 2005 -- 7.7.1 Introduction -- 7.7.2 Physical Chemistry -- 7.7.3 Theoretical Chemistry Department -- 7.7.4 Organic Chemistry -- 7.7.5 Inorganic Chemistry -- 7.7.6 Oxford Chemistry Today, 2008 -- Appendix 1 The Laboratories -- Acknowledgement -- Appendix 2 The Chemistry School Finances -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on Oxford University -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Note: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Series Preface -- Introduction Peter J.T. Morris -- 1 Theory and Concepts: Stability and Transformation in Chemical Problems and Explanation 1914 to the Present Mary Jo Nye -- 2 Practice and Experiment: From Laboratory Research to Teaching and Policy-making José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez and Antonio García-Belmar -- 3 Laboratories and Technology: An Era of Transformations Peter J.T. Morris -- 4 Culture and Science: Materials and Methods in Society Carsten Reinhardt -- 5 Society and Environment: The Advance of Women and the International Regulation of Pollution Peter Reed -- 6 Trade and Industry: The Growth, Diversification, and Dissolution of a Global Industry Peter J.T. Morris and Anthony S. Travis -- 7 Learning and Institutions: Global Developments since 1914 Jeffrey Allan Johnson, Yasu Furukawa, and Lijing Jiang -- 8 Art and Representation: From the "Mad Scientist" to Poison Gas and Chemical Pollution Joachim Schummer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the first edition -- 1 Introduction and definitions -- 1.1 Introduction and Notational Conventions -- 1.2 Padé Approximants to the Exponential Function -- 1.3 Sequences and Series -- Obstacles -- 1.4 The Baker Definition, the C-Table, and Block Structure -- 1.5 Duality and Invariance -- 2 Elementary developments -- 2.1 Numerical Calculation of Padé Approximants -- 2.2 Decipherment of Singularities from Padé Approximants and Apparent Errors -- 2.3 Some Explicit Forms for Padé Denominators -- 2.4 Bigradients and Hadamard's Formula -- 3 Pade approximants and numerical methods -- 3.1 Aitken's Δ2 Method as [L/l] Padé Approximants -- 3.2 Acceleration and Over acceleration of Convergence -- 3.3 The ε-Algorithm and the η-Algorithm -- 3.4 Wynn's Identity and the ε-Algorithm -- 3.5 Common Identities and Recursion Formulas -- 3.6 Recursive Calculation of the Coefficients of Padé Approximants -- 3.7 Kronecker's Algorithm and Cordellier's Identity -- 3.8 The Q.D. Algorithm and the Root Problem -- 4 Connection with continued fractions -- 4.1 Definitions, Recursion Relations, and Computation -- 4.2 Continued Fractions Derived from Maclaurin Series -- 4.3 Various Representations of Continued Fractions -- 4.4 The Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm and an Application of It -- 4.5 Different Types of Continued Fractions -- 4.6 Examples of Continued Fractions Which Are Padé Approximants -- 4.7 Convergence of Continued Fractions -- 5 Stieltjes series and Pólya series -- 5.1 Introduction to Stieltjes Series -- 5.2 Convergence of Stieltjes Series -- 5.3 Moment Problems and Orthogonal Polynomials -- 5.4 Stieltjes Series Convergent in |z| < -- R -- 5.4.1 Hausdorff Moment Problem -- 5.4.2 Integer Moment Problem -- 5.5 Stieltjes Series with Zero Radius of Convergence. , 5.6 Hamburger Series and the Hamburger Moment Problem -- 5.7 Polya Frequency Series -- 6 Convergence theory -- 6.1 Introduction to Convergence Theory: Rows -- 6.2 de Montessus's Theorem -- 6.3 Hermite's Formula and de Montessus's Theorem -- 6.4 Uniqueness of Convergence -- 6.5 Convergence in Measure -- 6.6 Lemniscates, Capacity, and Measure -- 6.7 The Padé Conjecture -- 7 Extensions of Padé approximants -- 7.1 Multipoint Padé Approximants -- 7.2 Baker-Gammel Approximants -- 7.3 Series Analysis -- 7.4 Padé-Laurent, Padé-Fourier, and Padé-Tchebycheff Approximants -- 7.5 Laurent-Padé Approximation and Toeplitz Systems -- 7.6 Multivariable Approximants -- 8 Multiseries approximants -- 8.1 Simultaneous Padé Approximants -- 8.2 Operator Padé Approximants -- 8.3 Rectangular Matrix Padé Approximants for Minimal Partial-Realization Problems -- 8.4 Vector Padé Approximants -- 8.4.1 Functional Padé Approximants -- 8.5 Hermite-Padé Polynomials -- 8.5.1 Minimality Definitions and Uniqueness -- 8.5.2 Table Structure Results -- 8.5.3 Recursion Relations -- 8.5.4 Existence of Sequences and the Modified Minimality Definition -- 8.6 Integral and Algebraic Approximants -- 8.6.1 Monodromy Theory -- 8.6.2 Definitions and the Accuracy-through-Order Principle -- 8.6.3 Equivalence Properties -- 8.6.4 Invariance Properties -- 8.6.5 Separation Properties -- 8.6.6 Convergence Theory -- 8.6.7 Singular Index and Amplitude Computations -- 9 Connection with integral equations and quantum mechanics -- 9.1 The General Method and Finite-Rank Kernels -- 9.2 Padé Approximants and Integral Equations with Compact Kernels -- 9.3 Projection Techniques -- 9.4 Potential Scattering -- 9.5 Derivation of Padé Approximants from Variational Principles -- 9.6 An Error Bound on Padé Approximants from Variational Principles -- 9.7 Single-sign Potentials in Scattering Theory etc. , 9.8 Variational Padé Approximants -- 9.9 Singular Potentials -- 10 Connection with numerical analysis -- 10.1 Acceleration of Convergence -- 10.2 Tchebycheff's Inequalities for the Density Function -- 10.3 Collocation and the τ-method -- 10.4 Crank-Nicholson and Related Methods for the Diffusion Equation -- 10.5 Inversion of the Laplace Transform -- 10.6 Connection with Rational Approximation -- 10.6.1 The Carathéodory-Fejér Method -- 10.7 Padé Approximants for the Riccati Equation -- 11 Connection with quantum Held theory -- 11.1 Perturbed Harmonic Oscillators -- 11.1.1 The Peres Model -- 11.1.2 The Anharmonic Oscillator -- 11.2 Pion-Pion Scattering -- 11.3 Lattice-Cutoff λφ4n Euclidean Field Theory, or the Continuous-Spin Ising Model -- Appendix: A FORTRAN FUNCTION -- Bibliography -- Index.

Note: Ebook , Chapter 1: An Outline of the History of the University of Oxford with Reference to its Chemistry School-- Chapter 2: From Alchemy to Air Pumps: the Foundation of Oxford Chemistry to 1700-- Chapter 3: The Eighteenth Century: Chemistry Allied to Anatomy-- Chapter 4: Chemistry Comes of Age: the 19th Century-- Chapter 5: Research as the Thing: Oxford Chemistry 1912-1939-- Chapter 6: Interlude: Chemists at War-- Chapter 7: Recent Times 1945-2005: a School of World Renown.